Intel Mesa Driver Finally Supports Threaded OpenGL
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Following the work squared away last year led in the RadeonSI driver, the Intel i965 OpenGL driver supports threaded OpenGL when the mesa_glthread=true environment variable is set.
Among the measured benefits so far to using Intel threaded OpenGL is around a 30% improvement for the Citra emulator while the Dolphin game emulator improved by 2.8x in one game. Like the Gallium3D code, the Intel threaded GL implementation also depends upon per-game white-listing within the DRIRC file.
The patch for now can be found on mesa-dev but will hopefully appear in Mesa 18.2-dev Git shortly. Benchmarks forthcoming.
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